RE: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

I think we need to focus on the audience Jesus was addressing. To whom
was the command given by Moses? Was it not to his own people, the
Israelites? I believe Jesus as the start of the New Covenant was
establishing the groundwork. Things are a little different now that God
is among you, yet these are not things you couldn't have figured out for
yourself.

So whose "creation" was He talking about? The passage in Mark10:8 is a
restatement of Genesis 2:24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh."

Who does that passage refer to in Genesis? Of course, it is Adam and
Eve, the first covenant pair. So I don't believe Jesus is harkening
back to the creation of Homo sapiens who neither married nor divorced.

Dick Fischer

Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org

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Behalf Of Merv
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:25 PM
To: David Opderbeck; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

Sorry -- don't know any articles, but I had never heard this verse used
that way.

10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and
female.

.... to get affirmation of a creation time-line out of this is a quite a
stretch, isn't it? I could see it used more as a commentary against
any notions of pre-human (or pre-male & female) life. But even that
would be reading quite a bit into it. Jesus was making a point to the
Pharisees about divorce, not to twenty-first century theologians on how
to understand Genesis.

--merv

David Opderbeck wrote:

Does anyone know of a good article / source that discusses the exegesis
of Mark 10:6, to reply to the YEC claim that Jesus must be affirming a
one-week creation?

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David W. Opderbeck
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Blog:  http://www.davidopderbeck.com/throughaglass.html
 
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